doomed

[doomd]

adjective

1. destined, or seemingly destined, especially to an adverse fate.

   Math wizards were able to pinpoint the final resting place of the doomed jet deep beneath the ocean.

2. judged guilty and sentenced, especially to death; condemned.

   Several times today and tonight the doomed man has wept like a child in his prison cell.

3. ordained or fixed, as a sentence or fate.

   In this age of finding everything online, it won’t be long before seed catalogs suffer the same doomed fate as most gardening magazines.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of doom.

Other Word Forms

• self-doomed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of doomed¹

doom + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

King Abdullah II of Jordan has warned that the Middle East is doomed unless there is a peace process leading to a Palestinian state.

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“The Fate of Ophelia” describes a lover whose devotion saved Swift from meeting the same bleak end as Shakespeare’s doomed character in “Hamlet.”

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But in his opposition to establishing a museum, he was doomed to fail.

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While everyone from retail investors to day-trading speculators is talking about the quantum trade, others are asking the inevitable follow-up question: Is this a bubble doomed to burst?

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It that sounds preposterous and doomed to fail, well, sure.

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Related Words

• ill-fated 
• wrecked